Aldous Huxley Quotes

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Because all the thought processes are limited, they are conditioned, and the thought does not touch directly with the reality, the truth; thoughts only grasps at the image of the truth.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

The world is everything that is the case.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are.